Articulatory feature-based conditional pronunciation modeling (AFCPM) aims to capture the pronunciation characteristics of speakers by modeling the linkage between the states of articulation during speech production and the actual phones produced by a speaker. Previous AFCPM systems use one discrete density function for each phoneme to model the pronunciation characteristics of speakers. This p...

gas-lift pumps are devices for lifting liquid phase incorporating the gas phase to be injected in the bottom of liquid column. they are widely used in various industrial applications such as oil extracting in petroleum industries. gas-liquid flow being the main part of the flow through these systems, flowing in vertical pipes of gas-lift pumps has different regimes namely bubbly, slug, churn an...

Phase-field modeling—a continuous approach to discontinuities—is gaining popularity for simulating rock fractures due its ability handle complex, discontinuous geometry without an explicit surface tracking algorithm. None of the existing phase-field models, however, incorporates impact roughness on mechanical response fractures—such as elastic deformability and shear-induced dilation—despite im...

We add a random bulk term, modeling the interaction with the impurities of the medium, to a standard functional in the gradient theory of phase transitions consisting of a gradient term with a double-well potential. For the resulting functional we study the asymptotic properties of minimizers and minimal energy under a rescaling in space, i.e., on the macroscopic scale. By bounding the energy f...

This paper will discuss the benefits of sharing data between discrete event process simulation and ergonomic workplace assessment using software developed by Deneb Robotics Inc. A modeling exercise has been developed to illustrate the integration of ergonomic and discrete event process modeling. This paper will provide an overview of ergonomic and process modeling, a summary of features and fun...

Statistical characterization of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications in presence phase noise is an important open issue. In this letter, we exploit concept copula modeling to capture non-standard dependence features that appear due discrete noise. particular, consider outage probability RIS systems Rayleigh fading channels and provide ...